Acromegaly in dogs and cats is generally a clinical syndrome caused by chronic overgrowth of growth hormone, which leads to overgrowth of connective tissue, bone tissue and internal organs. The cause of the disease in dogs is the long-term use of progesterone for disease treatment or the excessive secretion of endogenous progesterone during the dog's estrus, which stimulates the ectopic production of growth hormone in breast tissue; And the rare occurrence of pituitary adenoma in clinic causes excessive secretion of growth hormone. Acromegaly in cats is often caused by excessive secretion of growth hormone caused by pituitary adenoma.

This problem generally occurs in elderly, unsterilized female dogs and middle-aged and elderly male miscellaneous cats. There is no effective treatment for this problem at present, and Dr. Youchong can recommend you to try surgery.